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The Trillion Trees Project

Can we end deforestation once and for all? Here’s why we all need to get behind the Trillion Trees Vision.

We know how bad deforestation rates are, and how important reversing this trend is as a solution to many of the planet’s major problems. This is not news. Deforestation and forest restoration is, rightly, firmly on the global political agenda, rooted in initiatives like the New York Declaration on Forests, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Bonn Challenge and the Paris Agreement. There has been a wave of corporate and government commitments to end deforestation, and there’s more public and private funding available than ever before, but something isn’t working.

Funders are not finding the right projects, and frontline conservation programmes are finding it difficult to secure funding. The Trillion Trees programme calls this the ‘implementation gap’. Read all about this project here.

In honour of International Women’s Day, we invited Awatef Abiadh to share her insight from interviews with motivated and brave women who lead on conservation projects in developing countries in the Mediterranean. Get ready to be inspired…

Many of you will know that Martin died on Sunday 24th February 2019, relatively peacefully, having been diagnosed with untreatable cancer in September 2018. The end came very quickly with all the family here, and until recently his quality of life was not too bad.

He was very stoical, and at least it gave him time to organise things, his favourite / best books went off to auction in October, and he was delighted when his archive went to the Natural History Museum at Tring where it might be of use to others.

The 41,000 ha Tsitongambarika forest is one of Madagascar’s few remaining stands of humid lowland forest, a globally unique ecosystem with 80 – 90 per cent of its life made up of endemic species.

But it’s also an ecosystem under threat, ringed by villages comprising over 60,000 people and under pressure from illegal timber exploitation and encroachment by slash-and-burn agriculture and other forms of shifting cultivation.